Assembly/AU/Decl.1(XIII) Rev.1 Page 3 1. convene periodic regional platforms to facilitate experience sharing, lessons learnt and dissemination of best practices in land policy formulation, implementation and monitoring based on members states experiences; 2. appropriately capture and address issues of land policies within their respective common agricultural policy framework. URGES Member States to: 1. review their land sectors with a view to developing comprehensive policies which take into account their peculiar needs; 2. build adequate human, financial, technical capacities to support land policy development and implementation; 3. take note of the steps outlined in the Framework and Guidelines on Land Policy in Africa for their land policy development and implementation strategies. REQUESTS the Commission, in collaboration with UNECA and AfDB, to carry out studies on the establishment of an appropriate institutional framework that can support Member States in their efforts towards reviewing, developing and implementing land policies including mechanisms for progress tracking and reporting, as well as for the establishment of an African Fund for Land Policy, and report thereon to the ordinary session of the Assembly in June/July 2010. Adopted by the Thirteenth Ordinary Session of the Assembly in Sirte, Great Socialist People’s Libyan Arab Jamahiriya on 3 July 2009